Convert Quarts to Pints

About converting Quarts to Pints

Quarts (qt) and Pints (pt) are both units of volume, so converting between them is a single multiplication: multiply your Quarts figure by 2. Ten Quarts comes to 20 Pints, and a hundred works out at 200 Pints.

Rule of thumb: going from Quarts to Pints multiplies, so the figure always grows — one Quart is already 2 Pints. If your answer came out smaller, you have the conversion the wrong way round.

What is a Quart?

A quart is a quarter of a gallon, which is exactly where the name comes from — the Latin for a fourth part. Because the American and imperial gallons are different sizes, so are their quarts: the imperial quart is the larger by roughly a fifth, a discrepancy that quietly ruins recipes and technical specs copied across the Atlantic without checking. In the United States the quart is a supermarket fixture — milk, cream, motor oil and paint are all sold in them. Britain, having gone metric on the shelf, has largely dropped it and kept only the pint.

What is a Pint?

The pint is where the US-imperial split becomes most visible, because both countries still use the word every day. A US pint is 16 US fluid ounces; an imperial pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, making the British pint the larger by about a fifth. So a pint of beer in London is meaningfully more beer than a pint in New York — the same word, a different drink, and no label anywhere warns you. The imperial pint is also one of the few imperial units still legally mandated in the UK, where draught beer and cider must be sold in pints or fractions of one.

To put both in perspective: a quart is the size of a standard carton of American milk, while a pint is the standard glass of beer in a British pub.

The converter above updates as you type, and the table lists common values for quick reference. Need the opposite direction? Use the Pints to Quarts converter, or browse all Volume converters.